"Future Heap Owner" (aperiodic)
03/27/2019 at 09:51 • Filed to: kinjapocalypse, Kinja, kinjasucks
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"Future Heap Owner" (aperiodic)
03/27/2019 at 09:51 • Filed to: kinjapocalypse, Kinja, kinjasucks | 6
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There’s hardly any personality with the new Kinja layout. When the first few sentences of the post were excerpted in the main feed, you could get a sense of what each story was about, and some of the style & mood of the poster was visible. Now it’s just picture, headline, and a bunch of whitespace. Honestly, it makes me want to visit this place less, since it’s now so much more clicking and waiting to find the posts I’m interested in. But I’m sure they’re happy with it because they’ll get a short-term pageview boost.
I’m sad that they seem hell-bent on forcing this awful layout on us. I could live with images above the titles if they still had post excerpts. I encourage everyone who feels the same way I do to
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expressing your dissatisfaction with the new layout. Oppo is Kinja’s most active community site, so if enough of us complain maybe they’ll get the message. I don’t want it to happen because enough of us spend less time here
or outright leave
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The other thing that sucks is that now I’m getting logged out every time I go back to the main page, including when I click on the next page button. This makes it extremely frustrating & time-consuming to stay logged in on my phone, which is the main way I browse Oppo. Anyone else seeing that?
jimz
> Future Heap Owner
03/27/2019 at 10:03 |
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Kinja: “If it ain’t broke, fix it ‘til it is!”
E90M3
> Future Heap Owner
03/27/2019 at 11:12 |
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Done.
Urambo Tauro
> Future Heap Owner
03/27/2019 at 11:20 |
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Looks like posts with embiggened thumbnails are unaffected by the new layout... Which actually works out pretty nicely on the main blogs. All of the main posts are embiggened with preview text, while the Kinja Deals stuff is “fun-sized”.
Maybe we could do something like that here. Embiggen everything but the shitposts, maybe? I’d be cool with that. Only the mods can do that though, right?
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Future Heap Owner
> Urambo Tauro
03/27/2019 at 12:33 |
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What do you mean by “posts with embiggened thumbnails”? Is this something only the “real” sites like Kotaku, Jezebel, etc. can do? All the Oppo posts look exactly the same to me, on desktop & mobile.
diplodicus forgot his password
> Future Heap Owner
03/27/2019 at 13:32 |
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Well I didn’t write anything anyhow...
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Urambo Tauro
> Future Heap Owner
03/27/2019 at 17:19 |
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As I understand it, there are two types of embiggens. The title/headline can be embiggened with larger text , or the thumbnail can be embiggened to full width. Very few Oppo posts get the embiggened thumbnails, and I think mods are the only ones who can do it. As of right now, you have to click back a few pages to find the most recent example.